Quotes About Money

IT WAS CUSTOMARY in the South for outside observers to interpret events in terms of ideology (usually racial ideology) and for local observers to interpret the same events in terms of money (usually graft).

Say the magic word and the duck will come down and pay you $100

I'd try eBay, if I were you," Harry replies. "You might even get more than you paid for it." Plenty of fools all over the planet willing to pay good money for allegedly haunted bric-a-brac.

El dinero no es fácil de encontrar, Victorita lo sabe muy bien. Hace falta suerte. Todo lo demás lo puede poner uno de su parte, pero la suerte no.

Savings, remember, is the prerequisite of investment.

The form of money has changed over time, but the basic infrastructure of financial institutions has not.

Modern coinage came much later, first emerging in Lydia around 600 BCE and providing what we think of as today's functions of money: unit of account, medium of exchange, and store of value.

Important characteristics of money included durability, portability, divisibility, uniformity, limited supply, acceptability, and stability.

Las personas cultas -decían los nuevos líderes- son un lastre para los trabajadores. Las ciudades encarnan el mal. La cultura y la educación son inútiles y egoístas. El dinero y el comercio están corruptos. La fuerza de un país es el hombre trabajador, no los parásitos que viven de él. ¡Plantad arroz para que el país prospere! (...) Aquello era un holocausto. No solo de la vida, sino también del sentido común y de la razón.

Empiezo a preguntarme si no me habré equivocado contigo, lamentable criatura. Tienes que aprender que todo aquello que puede comprarse con una cierta cantidad de dinero no es realmente importante.

The whole business of medical journals is corrupt because owners are making money from restricting access to important research, most of it funded by public money.

A RADICAL IDEA Take a close-up look at how guilt operates in conjunction with the Upper Limit Problem. It shows up when we're feeling good (or making extra money or feeling a deeper loving connection in a relationship). When we're feeling good, we may come up against the hidden barrier of an old belief such as "I must not feel good, because fundamentally flawed people like me don't deserve it.

I checked my messages before I started driving. I had three. The first was from Verizon, letting me know I could save more money by spending more money.

Life is at its best when love, money, and creativity are growing in harmony.

As the months went by, Talese began to see the masseuse as a kind of unlicensed therapist. Just as thousands of people each day paid psychiatrists money to be heard, the massage man paid money to be touched.

These days, you've gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.

Sin dinero. Sin lugar para quedarse. Debe ser mi peor pesadilla. Pero no me importa. Es gracioso pensar en las cosas que crees temer, hasta que te suceden y luego ya no es así.

This place is not about fixing you. It's about warehousing you while your clueless parents are bilked out of thousands of dollars.

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

Do you know how much a freaking baby costs? A million dollars.

As a side note: I thought money was a bad idea way back when it was first invented. I remember the moment very clearly. This guy owed me a sheep, but instead of giving me an actual sheep he gave me five coins he said were worth the same as a sheep. "But I can't eat round pieces of metal, asshole," were my exact words.)

When I tell him, he looks disgusted. "We spend more money watering the lawns at the manufacturing plants every week! Dick is going to hear from me about this. If he's not willing to spend money, we may lose orders—even if your project is just insurance so we can collect on all the hard work my sales team does—it's a no-brainer!

Maybe I won't need the money for that snobby mental hospital after all. If I'm lucky, I might even get an all-paid expenses life-long trip there...

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.